Here is what I knew about Jean-Michel Basquiat before I walked into that room: he went out with Madonna. That was it. That was the whole of it. A man with work …
The Royal Palace on Dam Square has one room that most visitors walk straight past. It sits on the ground floor, on the Dam side, and it is numbered 21 on the …
I walked into this exhibition knowing nothing. I could not have said what Johan Cruyff played, when, or for whom. I knew the name the way a person knows a name: something …
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Inside the Royal Palace Amsterdam: The Town Hall That Became a Palace
by Bubblyby Bubbly 10 min readThe building on the west side of Dam Square is called the Royal Palace, and it was not built for a king. It was built by a city that had grown rich …
Almost everyone walks straight past the outside of the Moco Museum in Amsterdam. Ticket in hand, timed slot ticking, up the steps and into the villa, because that is where the Banksys …
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Breakfast at Locals in De Pijp, and What Dutch Pancakes Actually Are
by Bubblyby Bubbly 8 min readThere is a right way and a wrong way to arrive at a brewery tour. The wrong way is on an empty stomach at eleven in the morning, having walked several kilometres …